If you have a smartphone, you have (potentially) a programming platform. We can't simply give everyone on the planet a few acres of farmland to get to grips with the challenges of farming.
I dunno. There are vast patches of ocean that are going pretty much unused right now.
(Yes, I know that's still science-fiction, but is it really that much more of a stretch than the AI/robot/automation "software will eat the world" firm-belief that you see daily on HN?)
If you have a smartphone, you have (potentially) a programming platform. We can't simply give everyone on the planet a few acres of farmland to get to grips with the challenges of farming.